Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous – Grace Jones plays all these parts. Yet here we discover her as lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother, as she submits herself to our gaze and allows us to understand what constitutes her mask.

In Jamaican patois, ‘Bloodlight’ is the red light that illuminates when an artist is recording and ‘Bami’ means bread, the substance of daily life. The film cuts between Jamaica and Jones’ public and professional life. Here we see her as a gypsy moving between Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, London and New York, an artist in the recording studio with Jamaican drum and bass duo Sly and Robbie (musical collaborators across her career) or recounting to some backstage groupies her infamous Russell Harty TV appearance, from her side of the story. Warm and funny, she is both Bacchus – the wild partying hedonist – and a fierce and tenacious businesswoman.